The Good: Very little good to take away besides controlling play in the first period.
The Bad: I'm not one for criticizing the refs, but the first Ranger goal that was disallowed should have counted, the phantom slashing call and the unsportsmanlike conduct call for snowing the goaltender on Dubinsky were atrocious. The Rangers had 16 shots in the first period, 14 shots combined over the last 40 minutes against a shaky goaltender. The Rangers for as well as they've played in the third period so far this year packed it in after Lupul scored 2 minutes into the third. Lundqvist wasn't remotely close to the Lundqvist we've seen so far this year and let in a couple softies.
The Ugly: Obviously the biggest news that will come out of this game was the 'We want Avery' chants that erupted in the crowd in the third period. As much as I love Avery and what he's done for the Rangers, I don't think bringing him back is going to change anything. Unless he can score 25 goals this year, Avery on his best game isn't going to change a thing. Besides do you think Torts is going to let him do what he was so effective doing when Renney coached the team? Also Marc Crawford on TSN during one of the intermissions was criticizing Brad Richards for not skating hard and that is quite alarming.
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